Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
 Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd

The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (29) |
Author: Lambo ✧✺🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 84353 
Subject: Re: Asking the wrong question
Date: 11/21/24 11:48 AM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 3
And that’s how slavery returns to America. Might as well make them help pay for their own incarceration.

Peonage. And chain gangs ended in the 50s, but we can bring them back. Wait, aren't they still used here in Florida sometimes? Let the Midnight Special shone it's light on me...

Yet another rude awakening. We won the war but lost the reconstruction. Jim Crow. The KKK. They burned crosses in my home town. I think the odds are pretty good that one of my relatives was in the KKK. One was a Doctor in the Civil War.

We made up laws that were used against blacks to throw them in jail and then we could set them to work and make up for some of the lost slave labor by convict leasing. And it looks like we mostly turned a blind eye to it for along time. But some states can't get some things done without that work IIRC.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to Lambo here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 84,309 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (29) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Ticker or Board Name Author

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community